/sbin/kexec became zero size... Anyone else?

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Sep 23 03:52:04 EDT 2008


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:07:15PM -0700, Jay Lan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My root disk was populated with sles10sp2, but the kernel was
> 2.6.27-rc5 and /sbin/kexec was built from 2.0.0 version.
> 
> Many times when kdump kernel failed early i found  after reboot that
> /sbin/kexec became zero size. There was no warning on executing
> '/etc/init.d/kdump start' when /sbin/kexec is zero size. I have
> no idea when and how that happened.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?

Is it possible that this is caused by filesystem corruption?

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Simon Horman
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